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Catalaphyllia jardinei

• How 2020 Will Impact Smart Cities
  "A global pandemic, police protests and privacy pushbacks (not to mention a major recession) are changing the future of smart city tech."
• No, ‘PR-chitecture’ won’t save us from the pandemic
  "The next time you see a starchitect propose something insipid like 'blockchain but for architecture,' send a letter to the editor saying 'stop publishing this bullshit'."
• The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding?
  This was totally delightful.
• Tangled sharks and reefs under nets – 2020's most powerful ocean photos
  Makes me stabby.
• Colorado is not a rectangle
  "The Centennial State has 697 sides‚ not four."
• 3 Freeway Cap Projects Designed to Undo the Racism of the Past
  Add Denver and I-70 to the list too.
• Why there is hope that the world's coral reefs can be saved
  "With the future of the world’s ecological and human systems now so deeply interconnected, a new movement in reef conservation is putting social systems at its heart and explicitly building resilience into human and ecological systems in tandem. In other words, protecting nature means protecting people."
• The Town That Went Feral
  "Clearly, when it comes to certain kinds of problems, the response must be collective, supported by public effort, and dominated by something other than too-tidy-by-half invocations of market rationality and the maximization of individual personal freedom."
• The Elusive Peril of Space Junk
  “Imagine how dangerous sailing the high seas would be if all the ships ever lost in history were still drifting on top of the water,” ESA’s director general said at the time. “That is the current situation in orbit, and it cannot be allowed to continue.”
• A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
  Here comes GPT-3.